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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
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78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
122
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123* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
124
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125* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
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129Features:
130
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131* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
132 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
133 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
134 for all umh processes.
135
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136* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
137 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
138
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139* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
140 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
141 resize.
142
143* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
144 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
145
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146* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
147 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
148 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
149 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
150 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
151 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
152
153* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
154 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
155 and new new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
156 records, to be able to order them.
157
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158* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
159 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
160 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
161 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
162 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
163 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
164 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
165 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
166 system actually reset.
167
168* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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169 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
170 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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171
172* systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
173 image policy by default
174
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175* systemd-dissect: maybe add "--attach" and "--detach" verbs which
176 synchronously attach a DDI to a loopback device but not actually mount them.
177
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178* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
179 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
180 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
181 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
182
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183* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
184 lines. THen, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
185 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
186 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
187
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188* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
189 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
190 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
191 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
192 which isn't quite the same.
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194* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
195 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
196 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
197 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
198 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
199
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200* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
201 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
202 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
203 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
204 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
205
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206* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
207
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208* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
209 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
210 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
211 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
212
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213* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
214
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215* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
216 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
217
218* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
219 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
220 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
221
6d040d84 222* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 223 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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225* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
226 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
227 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
228 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
229 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
230 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
231 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
232 usual.
233
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234* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
235
236* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
237
238* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
239
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240* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
241 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
242 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
243 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
244 sockaddr.
245
246* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
247 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
248 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
249 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
250 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
251 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
252 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
253 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
254 try to use inode from there.
255
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256* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
257 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
258
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259* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
260 extensions
261
262* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
263 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
264 for the root fs or /usr/.
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266* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
267 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
268 combination thereof.
269
270* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
271 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
272 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
273 ahead of time.
274
275* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
276 aforementioned purpose.
277
278* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
279 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
280
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281* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
282 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
283 to figure out:
284 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
285 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
286 subsequent boots?
287
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288* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
289 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
290 inspiration from IMA log)
291
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292* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
293 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
294 out to our tools.
295
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296* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
297 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
298 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
299 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
300 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
301 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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302 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
303 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
304 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
305 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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307* move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
308
309* maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
310 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
311 this that pulls in a per mount service?
312
313* measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
314
315* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
316 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
317 used)
318
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319* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
320 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
321 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
322 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
323 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
324
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325* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
326 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
327 how PCR values we manage came to
328 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
329
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330* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
331 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
332 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
333 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 334 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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335 should win over vendor defaults.
336
337* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
338 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
339 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
340 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
341 command lines.
342
343* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
344 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
345 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
346
347* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
348 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
349
350* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
351 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
352 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
353 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
354 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
355 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
356
357* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
358 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
359 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
360
361* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
362
363* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
364 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
365 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
366 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
367
368* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
369 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
370 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
371 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
372 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
373 only one for each OS.
374
375* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
376 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 377 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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378 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
379 boot, for the next.
380
381* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
382 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
383
384* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
385 similar behind it, instead of http.
386
387* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
388 boot, or on first boot.
389
390* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
391 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
392
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393* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
394 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
395 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
396 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
397 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
398 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
399 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
400 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
401 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
402 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
403 until users are allowed to log in).
404
405* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
406 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
407
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408* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
409 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
410 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
411 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
412 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
413 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
414 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
415 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
416 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
417 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
418 automatically invalidated outside of it.
419
420* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
421 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
422 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
423 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
424 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 425 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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426 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
427 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
428 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
429 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
430 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
431 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
432 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
433 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
434 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
435 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
436 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
437 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
438 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
439 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
440 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
441
442* Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
443 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
444 system securely.
445
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446* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
447 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
448
449* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
450 instead of manual blocking.
451
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452* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
453 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
454
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455* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
456 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
457 supplied password.
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459* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
460 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
461 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
462 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
463
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464* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
465 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
466 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
467 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
468
469* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
470 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
471 automatically derived from --private-key=).
472
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473* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
474
475* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
476
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477* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
478 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
479 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
480
481* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
482 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
483 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
484 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
485 partition with a portable service partition in one.
486
487* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
488 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
489 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
490 modules
491
492* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
493 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
494 a new name with a built-in config?
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497 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
498
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500 maybe on kernel command line:
501 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
502 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
503
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505 hash type, etc)
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6c2d70ce 507* chase_symlinks(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
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509
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510* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
511 but final node is not a directory
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513* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
514 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
515
516* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
517 non-VFAT fs is used.
518
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519* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
520
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521* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
522 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
523
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525
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526* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
527 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
528 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
529 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
530 affect PCR values.
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533 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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535* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
536 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
537
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538* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
539 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
540
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542 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
543
544* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
545 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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548 maybe some other stuff and boots it
549
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552 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
553 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
554 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
555 use it.
556
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557* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
558 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
559
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560* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
561 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
562 what it was signed.
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565 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
566 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
567 be safely written to disk, then.
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570 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
571 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
572 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
573 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
574 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
575 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
576 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
577 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
578 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
579 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
580 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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583 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
584
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587 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
588 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
589 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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592 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
593 via the credentials logic.
594 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
595 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
596 integrity-generator)
597 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
598 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
599 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
600 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
601 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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603 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
604 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
605 file system paths to enable on start.
606 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
607 usr=
608 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
609 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
610 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
611 account one can directly log into.
612 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
613 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
614 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
615 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
616 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
617 pre-built kernels.
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620 runtime state. Then, expose it:
621
622 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
623 about the unit.
624 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
625 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
626 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
627 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
628 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
629 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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632 for this on dbus)
633
634* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
635 what to do if support ended
636
637* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
638 login time, á la motd
639
e1b45a75 640* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 641 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 642 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 643 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 644 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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647 initrd transition. Specifically:
648 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
649 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
650 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
651
652* implement varlink introspection
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655 chase_symlinks() instead
656
d486b26f 657* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 658 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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660 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
661 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
662 depending on desired level of persistency.
663
664* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
665 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
666 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
667 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
668 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
669 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
670 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
671 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
672
673* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
674 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
675 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
676 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
677
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679
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681
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683 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
684 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
685 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
686 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
687 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
688 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
689 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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692 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
693 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
694 not unprivileged code.
695
696* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
697 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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700 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
701 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
702 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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705 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
706 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
707 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
708 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
709 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
710 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
711 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
712 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
713
714* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
715 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
716 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
717 order.
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720 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
721 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
722 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
723 whenever they want.
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725* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
726 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
727 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
728
729* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
730 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
731 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
732 acquire.
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735 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
736 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
737 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 738 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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740 IN_IGNORED again)
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743 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
744 virtio-fs.
745
746* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 747 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 748 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 749 on verification if in secureboot mode
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751 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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753 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
754 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
755 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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756 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
757 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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759 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 760 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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762 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
763 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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766 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
767 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
768 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
769 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
770 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
771 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
772 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
773 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
774 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
775 service runtime logic quite substantially.
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778 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
779 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
780
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783 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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786 directly to host service manager.
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789 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
790 configure socket address.
791
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793
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795 no api to query the device id
796
797* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
798 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
799 also be queried.
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802 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
803 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
804 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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806* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
807 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
808 latter).
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810* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
811
812* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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814* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
815 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
816 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
817 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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820 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
821 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
822 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
823 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
824 UEFI HTTP boot.
825
826* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
827 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
828 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
829 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
830 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
831 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
832 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
833 hence cheap for enumeration.
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836
837* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
838 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
839 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
840 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
841 comprehensively.
842
843* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
844 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
845 words: show partition labels).
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848 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
849 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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852 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
853 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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856
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859* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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862 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
863 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
864 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
865 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
866 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
867 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
868 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
869 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
870 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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873 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
874 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
875 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
876 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
877 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
878 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
879 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
880 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
881 an NTP sync is acquired.
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884 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
885 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
886 call it at the end only
887
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889 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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892 jobs, units
893
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896 userspace)
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901 json package metadata, and use that when logging
902
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905
906* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
907 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
908
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910 internal clock.
911
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912* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
913 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
914
915* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
916 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
917 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
918 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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921 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
922 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
923
924* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
925 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
926 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
927 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
928 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
929 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
930 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
931 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
932 thread:
933 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
934 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
935 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
936 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
937 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
938 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
939
940* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
941 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
942 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
943
944* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
945 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
946 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
947 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
948 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
949 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
950 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
951 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
952 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
953 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
954 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
955 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
956 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
957 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
958 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
959
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960* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
961 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
962 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
963 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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964 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
965 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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967* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
968 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
969 dep in the base OS image)
970
971* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 972 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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974* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
975 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
976 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
977 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
978 on-disk storage.
979
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980* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
981 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
982 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
983 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
984 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
985
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986* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
987 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
988 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
989
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990* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
991 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
992 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
993 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
994 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
995 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
996 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
997
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998* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
999 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1000 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1001 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1002
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1003* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1004 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1005 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1006 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1007 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1008 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1009 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1010 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1011
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1012 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1013 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1014 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 1015 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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1016 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1017 take --image= that take the same short string.
1018
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1020 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1021 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1022 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1023 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1024 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1025 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1026 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1027 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1028 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1029 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1031* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1032 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1033 authentication.
1034
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1035* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1036 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1037 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1039* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1040
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1043* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1044 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1045 that images cannot be misused.
1046
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178d3ff2 1048 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1049 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1050 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1051 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1052
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1053* sysupdate:
1054 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1055 - support casync as download mechanism
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1056 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1057 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1058 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1059 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1060 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1061 override the host's update files.)
1062 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1063 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1064 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1065 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1066
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1067* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1068
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1069* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1070 make dirs appear under right UID.
1071
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1072* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1073 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1074
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1075* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1076 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1077 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1078 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1079 for doing that.
1080
24063ba1 1081* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1082 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1083 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1084 already have it.
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1086* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1087 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1088
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1089* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1090 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1091 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1092 socket: connect() to it.
1093
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1094* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1095
1096* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1097 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1098 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1099 /proc/self/fd/3
1100
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1101* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1102 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1103 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1104
1105* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1106 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1107
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1108* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1109 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1110
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1111* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1112 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1113 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1114 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1115 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1116
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1117* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1118
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1120 - acquire from EFI variable?
1121 - acquire via via ask-password?
1122 - acquire creds via keyring?
1123 - pass creds via keyring?
1124 - pass creds via memfd?
1125 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1126 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1127 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1128 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1129 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1130 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1131 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1132 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
199b097d 1133
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1134* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1135 firmware indicates there is one.
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1137* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1138 and such
1139
1140* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1142* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1143
7d7c75f1 1144* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1145 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1146
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1147* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1148 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1149
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1150* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1151
1152* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1153 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1154
1155* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1156 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1157
1158* cryptsetup:
1159 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1160 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1161
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1162* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1163 it happens to be set up alright already.
1164
1165* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1166
1167* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1168 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1169 default.
1170
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1171* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1172 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1173 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1174 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1175 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1176
08d33656 1177* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1178
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1179* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1180 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1181
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1182* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1183 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1184 temporary dir.
1185
1186* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1187 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1188
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1189* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1190 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1191
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1192* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1193
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1194* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1195
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1196* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1197
1198* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1199
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1200* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1201 when it exits
1202
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1203* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1204 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1205 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1206 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1207 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1208 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1209 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1210 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1211 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1212
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1213* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1214 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1215 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1216
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1217* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1218 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1219
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1220* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1221
1222* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1223 specific service
1224
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1225* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1226 exists and responds.
1227
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1228* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1229 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1230 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1231
91fc013f 1232* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1233 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1234
7e8facb3 1235* unify on openssl:
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1236 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1237 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1238 gnutls
1239 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1240
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1241* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1242 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1243
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1244* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1245 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1246
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1247* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1248
2a4be3c5 1249* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1250
f1eb0ccd 1251* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1252
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1253* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1254 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1255 initrd had set.
1256
173c7873 1257* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1258 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1259 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1260 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1261 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1262 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1263
1264* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1265 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1266 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1267
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1268* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1269 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1270 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1271 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1272 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1273 source.
1274
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1275* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1276 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1277 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1278
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1279* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1280
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1281* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1282 the hibernation
1283
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1284* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1285 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1286 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1287 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1288 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1289 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1290 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1291 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1292 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1293 hibernation mode. (see
1294 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1295 section 10.2.2.8 and
1296 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1297 at the end).
1298
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1299* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1300 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1301
c6526b8d 1302* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1303
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1304* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1305 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1306 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1307 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1308 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1309 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1310 exec().
1311
1312* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1313
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1314* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1315 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1316
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1317* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1318 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1319
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1320* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1321 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1322 root.
1323
1324* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1325 is issued.
1326
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1327* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1328
1329* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1330
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1331* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1332 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1333 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1334
d238709c 1335* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1336 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1337 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1338
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1339* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1340
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1341* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1342 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1343
06898123 1344* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1345 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1346 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1347 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1348
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1349* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1350
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1351* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1352 log.c and sd-journal-send
1353
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1354* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1355
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1356* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1357
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1358* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1359 non-zero "tries done" count
1360
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1361* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1362 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1363 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1364 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1365 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1366 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1367 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1368 CODE_FILE.
1369
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1370* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1371 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1372 some explanatory text online.
1373
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1374* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1375
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1376* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1377 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1378
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1379* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1380 Specifically:
1381
1382 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1383 properly)
e83419d0 1384 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1385 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1386
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1387* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1388 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1389
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1390* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1391 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1392 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1393 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1394
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1395* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1396
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1397* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1398
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1399* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1400 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1401
5da19043 1402* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1403 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1405* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1406 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1407 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1408 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1409 unlinked from any dir.
1410
bd1b3f75 1411* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1413* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1414
1415* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1416
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1417* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1418 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1419 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1420 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1421 should reflink the image file itself.
1422
1423 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1424 specific paths only like this.
1425
53c70a27 1426* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1427 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1428 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1429 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1430 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1431
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1432* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1433
1434* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1435
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1436* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1437 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1438
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1439* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1440 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1441 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1442 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1443 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1444 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1445 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1446 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1447
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1448* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1449 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1450
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1451* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1452
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1453* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1454 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1455
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1456* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1457 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1458
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1459* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1460 only when used. Add unit tests.
1461
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1462* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1463 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1464
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1465* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1466 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1467 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1468 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1469 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1470
899feb72 1471* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1473* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1474 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1475 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1476
5f7ecd61 1477* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1478
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1479* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1480 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1481
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1482* blog about fd store and restartable services
1483
1484* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1485
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1486* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1487 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1488
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1489* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1490 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1491 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1492 ID is available.
1493
1494* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1495 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1496 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1497
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1498* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1499 parameters
1500
63a185dc 1501* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1502 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1503 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1504 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1505 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1506 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1507 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1509* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1510 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1511
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1512* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1513 about it in the resource log message
1514
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1515* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1516 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1517 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1518
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1519* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1520 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1521
1522 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1523
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1524* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1525 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1526 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1527
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1528* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1529 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1530
1531* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1532 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1533 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1534 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1535 natural habitat.
1536
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1537* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1538 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1539
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1540* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1541 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1542 relative to the configured default value.
1543
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1544* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1545
04397464 1546* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1548* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1549
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1550* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1551
04397464 1552* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1553
04397464 1554* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1555
04397464 1556* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1557
8ce9b83a 1558* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1559
1560* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1561 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1562 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1563
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1564* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1565 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1566
e40a326c 1567* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1568
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1569* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1570 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1571 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1572 mapping to work.
1573
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1574* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1575
1576* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1577
1578* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1579
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1580* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1581 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1582
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1583* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1584 reload the unit file anyway
1585
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1586* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1587
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1588* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1589
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1590* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1591 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1592
f9bf1b8f 1593* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1594 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1595 specifications.
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1597* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1598
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1599* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1600
a2088fd0 1601* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1602 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1603 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1604 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1605
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1606* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1607
931bc195 1608* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1609
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1610* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1611 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1612 state.
41d6f3bf 1613 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1614
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1615* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1616 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1617 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1618 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1619 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1620
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1621* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1622
d2f81fb0 1623* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1624 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1625
0a86c1a9 1626* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1627 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1628
e031c227 1629* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1630 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1631
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1632* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1633
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1634* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1635 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1636
25e773ee 1637* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1638
720652b3 1639* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1640
720652b3 1641* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1642
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1643* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1644
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1645* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1646 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1647
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1648* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1649
9d6db739 1650* resolved:
9d6db739 1651 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1652 - service registration
1653 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1654 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1655 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1656 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1657 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1658 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1659 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1660 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1661
e25b5a8d 1662* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1663
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1664* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1665
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1666* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1667
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1668* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1669
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1670* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1671
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1672* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1673 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1674
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1675* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1676
6a3f892a 1677* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1678 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1679 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1680
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1681* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1682 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1683 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1684
f9bf1b8f 1685* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1686
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1687* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1688 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1689 for ReusePort=
1690
f38afcd0 1691* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1692 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1693 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1694 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1695 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1696 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1697 the hierarchies of child processes
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1698- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1699 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1700
f38afcd0 1701* transient units:
f38afcd0 1702 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1703
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1704* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1705
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1706* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1707
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1708* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1709
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1710* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
1711
7f79cd71 1712* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1713
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1714* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1715 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1716 path anyway.
1717
04397464 1718* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1719
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1720* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1721
1722* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1723
07eabc2b 1724* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1725
07eabc2b 1726* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1727
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1728* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1729
1730* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1731 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1732 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1733
1734* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1735 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1736
1737* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1738
1739* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1740
1741* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1742
1743* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1744 needs to be auto-respawned?
1745
1746* pid1:
1747 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1748 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1749 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1750 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1751 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1752 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1753 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1754 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1755 - move PAM code into its own binary
1756 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1757 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1758 - Support --test based on current system state
1759 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1760 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1761 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1762 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1763 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1764 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1765 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1766 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1767 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1768 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1769 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1770 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1771 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1772
1773* unit files:
1774 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1775 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1776 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1777 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1778 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1779 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1780 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1781 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1782 - introduce Type=pid-file
1783 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1784 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1785 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1786
1787* timer units:
63a185dc 1788 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1789 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1790
1791* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1792
1793* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1794
1795* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1796
1797* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1798
07eabc2b 1799* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
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1801* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1802
1803* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1804
fff87a35 1805* test/:
20d52ab6 1806 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1807
b5c03638 1808* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1809 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1810 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1811 destination.
1812
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1813* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1814 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1815
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1816* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1817
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1818* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1819 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1820 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1821
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1822* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1823 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1824
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1825* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1826 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1827 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1828 that automatically.
1829
e5ec62c5 1830* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1831
ccddd104 1832* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1833
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1834* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1835
356ce991 1836* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1837
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1838* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1839
1840* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1841
1842* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1843
1844* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1845
1846* sd-bus:
1847 - EBADSLT handling
1848 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1849 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1850 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
1851 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1852 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1853 - longer term: priority inheritance
1854 - dbus spec updates:
1855 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1856 - path escaping
1857 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1858
1859* sd-event
1860 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1861 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1862 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1863 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1864 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1865 here:
1866 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1867
1868* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1869 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1870
1871* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1872
1873* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1874
1875* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1876
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1877* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1878 reading/writing files
1879
1880* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1881
b44be3ec 1882* EFI:
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1883 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1884 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1885 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1886* bootctl
631427d6 1887 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1888
07eabc2b 1889* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1890
07eabc2b 1891* bootctl:
483091b0 1892 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1893 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1894 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1895
1896* kernel-install:
1897 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1898
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1899* logind:
1900 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1901 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1902 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1903 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1904 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1905 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1906 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1907 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1908 needs setuid().
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1909 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1910 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1911 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1912 complete.
1913 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1914 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1915 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1916 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1917 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1918 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1919 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1920 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1921 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1922 relogins
77b19caf 1923 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1924 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1925 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1926 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1927
1928* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1929
1930* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1931 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1932 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1933
1934* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1935 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1936
b44be3ec 1937* journal:
57f2a947 1938 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1939 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1940 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1941 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1942 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1943 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1944 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1945 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1946 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1947 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1948 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1949 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1950 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1951 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1952 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1953 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1954 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1955 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
1956 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1957 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1958 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1959 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1960 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1961 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1962 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1963 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1964 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1965 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1966 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1967 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1968 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1969 to syslog when it works again.
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1970 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1971 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1972 journals in.
1973 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1974 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1975 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1976 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1977 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1978 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1979 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1980 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1981 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1982 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1983 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1984 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1985 operation.
1986 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1987 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1988 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1989 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1990 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1991 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1992 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1993 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1994 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1995 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1996
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1997* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1998 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1999
2000* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2001 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2002 validated via TPM.
2003
2004* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2005 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2006
2007* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2008 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2009 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2010
2011* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2012 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2013 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2014 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2015 cgroup.
2016
2017* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2018 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2019 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2020 logging.
2021
2022* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2023
2024* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2025 from the SIGBUS handler
2026
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2027* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2028 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2029 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2030 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2031
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2032* homed:
2033 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2034 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2035 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2036 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2037 - create on activate?
2038 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2039 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2040 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2041 systemd --user is shut down.
2042 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2043 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2044 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2045 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2046 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2047 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2048 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2049 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2050 - query password from kernel keyring first
2051 - update even if record is "absent"
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2052 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2053 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2054 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2055 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2056 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2057 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2058 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2059 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2060 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2061 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2062 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2063 signature
2064 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2065 and insert a local signature instead.
2066 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2067 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2068 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2069 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2070 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2071 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2072 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2073 easily?
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2074 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2075 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2076 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2077 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2078 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2079 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2080 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2081 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2082 can easily set overall quota for all users
2083 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2084 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2085 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2086 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2087 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2088 large.
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2090* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2091 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2092 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2093
2df2bb1f 2094* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2095
2096* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2097 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2098 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2099 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2100
2101* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2102
2103* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2104 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2105 something goes wrong on the way.
2106
2107* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2108
2109* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2110 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2111 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2112 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2113
2114* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2115 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2116 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2117 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2118 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2119 automatically.
2120
2121* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2122 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2123
2124* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2125 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2126 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2127 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2128 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2129 fails to apply use the latter.
2130
2131* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2132 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2133
2134* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2135 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2136
2137* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2138 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2139 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2140
2141* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2142 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2143
92e72028 2144* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2145 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2146 during boot.
2147
2148* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2149
b44be3ec 2150* document:
8b8f2591 2151 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2152 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2153 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2154 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2155 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2156 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2157 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2158 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2159 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2160 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2161 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2162 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2163
2164* systemctl:
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2165 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2166 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2167 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2168 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2169 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2170 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2171 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2172 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2173 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2174 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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2176* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2177 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2178 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2179
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2180* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2181 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2182 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2183 output for them.
d2e83c23 2184
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2185* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2186 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2187 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2188
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2189* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2190 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2191 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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2193* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2194 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2195
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2196* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2197 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2198 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2199 do, for example)
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2201* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2202 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2203 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2204 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2205
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2206* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2207
2208* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2209
2210* unit install:
2211 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2212 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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b44be3ec 2214* nspawn:
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2215 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2216 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2217 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2218 from the kernel's logs.
2219 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2220 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2221 interface be missing
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2222 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2223 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2224 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2225 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2226 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2227 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2228 PID 1...
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2229 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2230 running, remove them when shut down.
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2231 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2232 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2233 startup.
2234 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2235 or so, freeze the payload too.
2236 - support time namespaces
2237 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2238 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2239 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2240 "machinectl shell"
2241 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2242 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2243 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2244 - greater control over selinux label?
2245 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2246 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2247 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2248 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2249 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2250 host TPM.
2251 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2252 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2253 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2254 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2255 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2256 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2257 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2258 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2259 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2260 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2261 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2262 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2263 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2264
2265* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2266 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2267 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2268 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2269 anything like that.
2270
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2272 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2273 removed or added to an existing machine
2274 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2275 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2276 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2277 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2278 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2279 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2280 - "machinectl history"
2281 - "machinectl diff"
2282 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2283 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2284
abd55b16 2285* udev:
abd55b16 2286 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2287 - kill scsi_id
2288 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2289 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2290 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2291 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2292
e25b5a8d
DH
2293* coredump:
2294 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2295 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2296 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2297
2298* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2299
f38afcd0 2300* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2301 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2302 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2303 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2304 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2305 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2306 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2307 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2308 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2309 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2310
af6f0d42
TG
2311* udev-link-config:
2312 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2313 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2314 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2315
88e4d1d7 2316* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2317 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2318 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2319
0a4b9a07 2320* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2321 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2322 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2323 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2324 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2325 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2326 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2327 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2328 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2329 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2330 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2331 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2332 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2333 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2334 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2335 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2336 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2337 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2338 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2339
07eabc2b
LB
2340* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2341
d5e172d2
ZJS
2342* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2343
ac976532 2344* dhcp:
424a8732 2345 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2346
37d8b536
PF
2347* dhcp6:
2348 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2349 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2350 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2351 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2352 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2353 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2354 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2355 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2356 or interface down
2357 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2358 this behavior
4a77c53d 2359 - RouteTable= ?